Pacific Weekly, October 6, 1944

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Las Vegas Optic, 09-17-1914

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FLARR Pages: Volume 2, Pages 44-68

FLARR Pages is the journal of The Foreign Language Association of the Red River of the North, an organization consisting of regional public school and private school faculty as well as faculty from Minnesota State University Bemidji, Concordia College, Minnesota State University Moorhead, North Dakota State University, the University of Minnesota Morris, the University of North Dakota, and the University of Winnipeg

Making sense of the western front: English infantrymen’s morale and perception of crisis during the Great War

This thesis reappraises military morale during the First World War, looking at the relationship between morale and perceptions of crisis. It analyses the resilience of English infantrymen serving on the Western Front during three acute ‘crisis’ periods faced by the British Army in 1914, 1916, and 1917/1918. Through the examination of contemporary sources, it reveals how infantrymen’s long-term experiential perceptions of war and the Western Front functioned to promote resilience. Generally focussing on moments outside of combat, it argues that many combatants perceived the war itself as a prolonged chronic crisis. Adaptations deflected experiences of chronic crisis and soldiers often failed to register acute crisis and did not distinguish these phases as ones of ‘crisis’ at the time. The dissertation draws on untapped archival material, mainly using sources written during or shortly after the events being studied. It investigates the interrelationship between soldiers’ social and physical environment, and their psychological environment. Deploying theory from anthropology, sociology and social psychology, it goes further than previous work in its interdisciplinary scope. The individual chapters reflect the themes that emerged most forcefully from the primary material. The first four describe the ways in which men overcame chronic crisis, while the final chapter analyses the emergence of acute crisis. ‘Attachment’ explores how men familiarised themselves with the physical environment of the Western Front, normalised it and found meaning in it. ‘Exhaustion’ analyses the experience of winter, showing how this subsumed other concerns and changed men’s perspective on war during other seasons of the year. ‘Obligation’ reinterprets the ways in which concepts of duty influenced soldiers’ actions and interpretation of the conflict. ‘Imagination’ develops a fresh perspective on the ways in which men’s perceptions and dreams of England became a coping mechanism and furnished a justification of their suffering. ‘Hope’ argues that visions of peace proved to be sustaining and were inextricably linked to ideas of victory. The thesis offers new insights into the psychology of the soldiers of 1914-18, and the conclusion suggests that human adaptability and the ability to construe events constructively, to have goals and see clear pathways to these goals, helped men to cope with the Great War

Tucumcari News Times, 12-12-1918

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Civil-military relations in the United Kingdom and Italy at the turn of the First World War. A comparative perspective.

All’inizio del ventesimo secolo, il Regno Unito e il Regno d’Italia sono due paesi tradizionalmente molto diversi. Il primo detiene la supremazia navale, mentre il secondo concentra i propri fondi per il miglioramento dell’esercito. A livello continentale, la Gran Bretagna fu una grande potenza a livello internazionale ma geograficamente circondata dall’acqua, mentre l’Italia confina con due paesi, Francia e Austria, con i quali non ha mai stretto uno stabile rapporto. A livello interno, per gli stati liberali vige la separazione dei poteri civile e militare. L’approccio comparativo dei rapporti civile-militare a cavallo della Prima Guerra mondiale, permette un’analisi della struttura di decision-making nel Regno Unito e nel Regno d’Italia. L’obiettivo della ricerca storica è comprendere l’intrecciarsi dei diversi livelli di conduzione politico e militare della Grande Guerra per poter rispondere alle domande fondamento della ricerca: chi decise di fare la guerra, chi la condusse e in che modo, ed infine chi firmò i trattati di pace

Clovis News, 08-20-1915

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Las Vegas Optic, 09-29-1914

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